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James Baldwin

James Baldwin

The Works of James Baldwin

We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only forces that can change it.
	James Baldwin was born in Harlem on August 2, 1924.  Shortly after his birth his mother married David Baldwin, a factory worker and Pentecostal minister.  Baldwin was the eldest of nine children.  Because of his troubled relationship with his strict stepfather, Baldwin turned to reading as a way to escape.  Baldwin says little about his childhood, commenting only that "it is the usual bleak fantasy, and we can dismiss it with the unrestrained observation that I certainly would not consider living it again" (http://www.oceanrush.com/baldwin.html, pg. 1).
	During his years at Frederick Douglas Junior High School, Baldwin edited the school paper and belonged to a literary club.  It was at this time that he came to know Countee Cullen, a faculty member of school who had been one of the writers of the Harlem Renaissance.  At 14, his literary career was challenged by a new vocation when he became a junior minister at a Harlem storefront church, drawing crowds bigger than his stepfather's.  Three years later he decided to

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